I don’t receive glory from men.
Parallel translations
- KJV I receive not honour from men.
- BSB I do not accept glory from men,
- ESV I do not receive glory from people.
- NKJV “I do not receive honor from men.
- NASB I do not receive glory from people;
- NLT “Your approval means nothing to me,
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- John 7:18He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
- John 8:50But I don’t seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.
- 1 Th 2:6nor seeking glory from men (neither from you nor from others), when we might have claimed authority as apostles of Christ.
- John 5:34But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved.
- John 8:54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.
- John 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
- 1 Pet 2:21For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,
- John 6:15Jesus therefore, perceiving that they were about to come and take him by force, to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain by himself.
- 2 Pet 1:17For he received from God the Father honor and glory, when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
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